“There’s a difference when she, as the acting attorney general, is not only responsible but required to execute lawful orders and defiantly says no,” he said. “As someone who was chosen to lead a department, she was rightfully removed.”
Trump claimed the OLC reviewed the Muslim ban. That’s a lie, and without that the acting AG had to determine for herself whether or not the EO was lawful.
Then the only recourse is violence.
Jeff Sessions: Understood Sir.
It hasn’t taken me long to learn to hate this spiteful little shitheel of a lackey with the heat of a billion sons.
I don’t know what we’re going to do, but we need to come up with the equivalent of blowing up the death star and FAST.
We can’t hope that some GOP assholes will suddenly grow a spine and save us. They won’t.
Spicer and Trumpenfuhrer are such insipid fools!
They have no idea that the institutional staff at all these agencies, the ones farther down the food chain, are the ones who can and will gum up the works if they disagree with his policies and directives. And its not even the matter many republiscums complain about (hard to fire). It’s that they are usually so experienced they can slow down, divert, modify, not enact or otherwise stop EO’s and no one is the wiser as to how things have bogged down.
Just wait, as we’ll see massive yet under the radar objections to many things the short-fingered vulgarian wants.
"It’s so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked." – Harold Pinter
Think about the implication – that means they will fire those in charge of law enforcement/IC if they don’t agree to terminate the ongoing investigations about PeePee and Russia.
What would be the legal ramifications of the White House Press Corps collectively rushing the podium and pantsing Spicer on live television?
What Yates said was she could not defend something that may not be lawful. Spicer said and also implied Trump’s EO was lawful. I am leaning towards Yates on this one.
“I think that that kind of comes with the job, right?” Spicer responded. “Every one of the appointees understand that they serve at the pleasure of the President.”
That means those nominees answers are invalid
> “I will only hire the best people to staff my administration.”
Just checking in from a busy morning out…you know…I don’t think they are going to make it much further. It’s spinning way out of control. It might take a little more time but by next week…the chaos will envelope them…maybe not…but there’s not much further to fall. trump will lose it, Bannon will blow it and I don’t know where we’ll be, but at least it won’t be good for them.
It’s so simple the government used to be weak and have three separate branches of government. Now with Trumppee’s brilliance we only need one.
Besides Sean Sphincter being arrested for insufficient exposure? Dunno.
For the time being, Yates was the only one at DOJ who could sign off on FOIA requests. Until Sessions is confirmed.
Won’t the new, improved acting AG will be able to sign them?
Spicer said the position of acting attorney general is “given to somebody who is supposed to execute orders that are handed down to them properly,” and said that was “100 percent done” in the case of Trump’s executive order temporarily barring visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries
Translation: Your oath is to the #RussianPuppet, not the Constitution.
I don’t think Spicer and President Trump understand what the function of the AG is. At least, they don’t understand his or her function in a Democratic, Constitutional system.
Spicer must have flunked his 9th-grade Civics class. Federal officials take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, not Dear Leader’s petty and whimsical notions.